RBI may cut rates in coming months: ICICI Bank CEO Kochhar

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may lower its benchmark interest rates in the coming months as inflation has eased, pursuant to which banks may also lower their rates to some extent to pass on the benefit to customers, top banker Chanda Kochhar said.

Guy Ryder, director general of International Labour Organization, spoke to NDTV's Namrata Brar on the sidelines of the annual WEF meet in Davos, Switzerland.

Christine Lagarde, managing director at International Monetary Fund, spoke to NDTV's Vikram Chandra on the sidelines of the annual WEF meet in Davos, Switzerland, about various issues that India faces as a nation and as an economy.

Gregory R Page, chairman and CEO of Cargill, spoke to NDTV's Namrata Brar on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

US retailing behemoth Wal-Mart is worried that it is being unfairly targeted with allegations of lobbying in India to gain entry into the country's market, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma told NDTV today.

A Sikh rights group has filed a criminal complaint against Minister for Urban Development Kamal Nath, who is heading the Indian delegation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, with the Swiss Attorney General seeking his arrest and prosecution for allegedly conspiring in the 1984 anti-Sikhs riots.

J Frank Brown, managing director and COO of General Atlantic, spoke to NDTV's Namrata Brar on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Anand Sharma, Minister of Commerce & Industry, speaks to NDTV's Shweta Rajpal Kohli on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about reform process giving a positive signal to foreign investors. He also speaks about the Supreme Court's move to question government's FDI in multi-brand retail policy. Here is the edited transcript of the inter...

Uday S. Kotak, executive vice-chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank, speaks to NDTV's Namrata Brar about mood of the economy, outlook for 2013, FDI in insurance and key issues being discussed in Davos 2013. Here is the edited transcript of the interview:

The chairman of Tesco met trade minister Anand Sharma, seeking clarifications on the country's decision to open its supermarket sector to foreign investors, the government said in a statement on Thursday.

India today said it is working on a framework to provide incentives to domestic as well as foreign companies for setting up vocational centres to train youth for jobs in the manufacturing sector.

Prime Minister David Cameron warned European leaders on Thursday that any attempt to shoehorn countries into ever deeper political union was a mistake that Britain would not be a part of.

Nath, who is leading the Indian delegation at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, also said that even the US or Europe would not have seen as many reforms that happened in India.

Lack of competitiveness in Europe is the root cause of financial instability and rising unemployment numbers in the region, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said today.

She also remembered the young Pakistani victim Malala Yousafzai while addressing the gathering at the annual WEF meeting.

The policymakers need to take urgent steps to make equities more attractive to wean away the investors' interest from an idle asset like gold and channelise the Indian savings into the country's equity markets, top banker Uday Kotak said here.

Pascal Lamy, director-general, World Trade Organization, spoke to NDTV's Namrata Brar on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland about the Doha round of negotiations, which aims to lower trade barriers around the world to facilitate global trade. Here's the edited transcript of the interview:

Ready for a new chapter in its journey, once scam-hit and now a totally reformed IT firm on a growth path, Mahindra Satyam has said the tax and other cases against it are like penalising the ambulance for picking up victims.

The government should consider charging the very rich more tax, Finance Minister P Chidambaram told a news channel on Thursday, but emphasized that he believed in "stable tax rates."

Leaders of the world's largest banks have gone some way to persuading investors that their industry's near-death experience is over, even though the public still don't trust them.